He also says that in order for anyone to make money by trading actual dollars for bits on a blockchain and then back again, or by mining those bits by paying an absurdly large power bill (to say nothing of single purpose hardware that becomes useless within a few years) and then selling them to the next guy, one must somehow convince some other poor soul that those bits on that blockchain are now somehow worth more dollars than they were when one bought them to begin with. No cryptocurrency can exist without bagholders. Categorically.
North Korea calls itself democratic. Everyone in the country votes for a new leader every five years. It’s just that there’s only one name on the ballot.
One would be foolhardy to call that democracy.
One would be even more foolhardy to argue that this means that democracy is a stupid idea.
Yesterday there was a controversial movie torrent that was getting 1000s of downloads and was on the “popular this week” page, and today it’s just gone. I went to the uploader’s account page and it’s not there either. Just like it never existed....
Don’t forget the entire section that’s literally just “big pharma is a scam and medical degrees are an excuse to sell you drugs”. no Sharon I am pretty sure ADHD is real
I’m a fan of Toys For Tots as a direct alternative. They don’t accept money; you just buy a toy and put it in the donation bin, and they distribute them
It is also the version control system that uses sqlite which is pretty cool as far as disk space and resiliency are concerned esp. as compared to Git.
I don’t however like that it prides itself on not having any history rewriting features because I am kind of a fan of those. I like keeping embarrassing mistakes like a typo’d commit message or missing file out of my permanent commit history.
Debian 12: how do I get Gnome Files to display preview thumbnails/icons for large video files? Right now it just shows generic icons (lemmy.world)
Aliens decide to communicate with us (lemmy.ca)
Aliens want to communicate and they decide to use you and your personality as the base model for all humans. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
I'll be spending Christmas with Lemmy this year, thank you (lemmy.ca)
Guys/Gals it’s posted in the meme community, clearly this did not happen. The joke is funnier in the first person.
I am one of you now (files.catbox.moe)
When somebody laughes at your Facebook post, but you were being serious (r.nf)
The struggle is real…
Proof of twerk (lemmy.world)
yellow guy (feddit.de)
They forgot the LGBTQ... (lemmy.ca)
When a Torrent disappears from 1337x, how do you find out what happened?
Yesterday there was a controversial movie torrent that was getting 1000s of downloads and was on the “popular this week” page, and today it’s just gone. I went to the uploader’s account page and it’s not there either. Just like it never existed....
It's OK if you cry (infosec.pub)
A masterpiece about our society, all the burdens and manipulation, and breaking free from it (tux.social)
I consider this a meme, as it is graphically depicting emotions we all share.
Well (lemmy.ml)
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Get outta my face! (lemmy.ml)
Im looking at you, R34 artists (ibb.co)
Witcher 3 is on sale for $8, BTW (lemmy.world)
Every time (media.wetdry.world)
alt textwayward vagabond from homestuck: we should improve technology somewhat. well dweller: xkcd 927 “standards”
F#€k $pez (lemmy.ml)
Bruh (startrek.website)
There is an endless supply (lemmy.world)